aspiration
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The book established many of the themes that continue through Rowbottom’s fiction: women at odds with their bodies, mothers and daughters struggling toward one another, beauty as both aspiration and burden.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
Lincoln did not treat the Revolution as an open-ended aspiration; he gave it a moral center, insisting that equality was not an optional inheritance but the nation’s core identity.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
However, if a poem leads you to a state of understanding, of awareness, and above all, aspiration, then you start to think about a different life, you want to live differently.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
Voters may value welfare - but increasingly ask what comes after it: jobs, wages, mobility, aspiration.
From BBC • May 11, 2026
There was a constant tension between the aspiration to be first and the fear of not being believed, of being regarded as an eccentric and a fool.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing aspiration
This Week in Pop Culture : January 5 - 11, 2019
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Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Military-Industrial Complex" (1961)
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